Arna Ionescu
Arna leads the Connected Health domain within IDEO’s Health & Wellness practice. Within that domain, she helps a wide range of clients design products and services that help people connect to healthcare and each other. She helps clients leverage technology to create scalable and efficient systems that also feel personal and caring. Her background in systemic interaction design and strategic human factors helps her approach challenges with a multi-pronged and human-centered perspective.
Arna has focused the majority of her career on healthcare, in both the developed and the developing world. Her work spans the tangible and the intangible, including surgical instrumentation, consumer healthcare products, clinical software, pharmaceutical services, and national intervention campaigns. Besides publishing and speaking regularly on design for healthcare, Arna nurtures new design thinkers through her teaching at the Stanford University d.school.
Arna holds an MS in Computer Science/Human Computer Interaction from Stanford University and a BSE in Computer Science and Minor in Modern Dance from Princeton University. Arna was recently profiled in the San Francisco Chronicle: read the article here.
Topics Arna speaks on:
- Health & Wellness
- Human-Centered Design
- Innovation Strategy
- User Interface Design
Speaking engagements:
January 2010, “Technology is NOT the Solution,” IDEO Change+ Salon, San Francisco, CA
September 2009, “Design for Health,” LifeScience Alley Crossroads Event keynote address, St. Paul, MN
June 2009, “Design from a Human Perspective,” AusMedTech, Sydney, Australia
June 2009, “The Future with Design Thinking,” Design Victoria, Melbourne, Australia
April 2009, “Navigating Healthcare,” Health 2.0 panelist, Boston, MA
June 2005, “New Paradigms in Healing,” Princeton University Alumni panelist, Princeton, NJ
Published works:
July 2009, “Gaining a Competitive Advantage Through Design Thinking,” Australasian Biotechnology
July 2006, “Mouse in OR,” Ambidextrous Magazine
2004, “Where the wild things work: capturing shared physical design workspaces,” CSCW 2004
2000, “EMCE: A multimodal environment augmenting conferencing experiences,” FAUIC 2000